John Kremer

Tony Gaskin on Building Your Dreams

If you don’t build your dreams, someone will hire you to help build theirs. — Tony Gaskin You have to build your dreams. Now. Don’t wait. Or you will be hired to build another’s dream. It’s okay to work for another. But you don’t want to do it forever. Not if you have a dream. […]

How to Track and Uncover Good Literary Agents

To be published by a major book publisher, you need an agent. This is especially true for fiction. Click To Tweet If you want to be published by a major book publisher, you need an agent. This is especially true for fiction (novels, short story collections, mysteries, romances, etc.). But it can also be important […]

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Book Marketing Q&A: Search Engine Optimization

Book Author Question Our book review website is way down in the search engine rankings for key terms such as “book review,” “get book reviews,” and “reviews of books.” I can’t even find us under those — must be way, way down. John’s Book Marketing Answer After talking with the author, I found out that their website […]

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Persistence: What You Have Control Over

When you are writing a book, you have lots of control over the content, style, and format of your book, but once you start to market, you lose a lot of control. You can’t force media to feature you. You can’t force bookstores to put your book on their shelves. You can’t force readers to […]